Gov. Kathy Hochul, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and various hospital staff s criticized a Trump-supported bill warning of severe funding cuts to healthcare for seniors and low-income residents. Hochul asserted that the proposed tax cut and spending bill would lead to the loss of healthcare coverage for 1.5 million New Yorkers, drastically affecting Medicaid funding and costing the state billions. The officials labeled the proposal a reversal of Robin Hood, prioritizing tax benefits for the wealthy over essential healthcare services.
We're at war to protect our people, and I'm sick and tired of Washington thinking that we can be the collateral damage in the weaponization of programs that we've relied on for nearly 60 years, and cut them so they can cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires, Hochul scoffed.
According to Hochul, some 1.5 million New Yorkers would lose healthcare coverage if the act, as planned, is approved by the Senate and signed into law by President Trump.
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